He woke up about 5. Carly and he spent the next hour cutting fruit and sitting in the reading area with books.
They went for a walk after I woke up. I helped put his shoes on and this is when he started using his first real two word phrases: ‘mama shoes’ and ‘dada shoes’.
Carly made a smoothie and he is now saying ‘smoothie’ regularly.
After that, Carly headed off to work for a few hours to start setting up her classroom. August and I finished making a loaf of banana zucchini carrot bread and August had fun licking the spatula.
After that, he was bouncing back and forth between playing and being sad that Carly was gone. I thought something was up, and put on Hozier. He fell asleep in my arms after just two songs. Been a couple months since that has happened.
His nap only lasted 35 minutes though, and he seemed quite awake. It didn’t seem like he needed to go back to sleep. So he ate some banana bread and put on his shoes and we went out to the park. Some teeter tottering, picking up of garbage, swinging, and wandering around the park occurred, then we headed home around noon.
At home, he was sad to not find Carly, but was excited when she called. I answered on my watch, so he could hear her and talk to her as well. After she hung up, he started saying ‘bye bye’ and waving to the watch. He did this several times and thought it was quite funny.
Carly came home and after awhile needed some time to rest and try to sleep. So August and I left for a walk. For the first time, he didn’t object or get upset about getting in the backpack at all. We walked up the stream and to area north of the soccer stadium, where we play in the faucets. There are all sorts of new sculptures and history exhibits now around the stadium, basically and outdoor museum. I let him down out of the backpack at the north and and we played there for 20 or 30 minutes.
We walked back around the other side of the stadium and came home. I thought he was close to falling asleep as we got home, as he was resting his chin on the backpack. But he recovered his energy and became pretty hyper. He calmed down at one point though and grabbed his picture dictionary book and wanted to sit in the rocking chair with me. He lay in my lap and looked at that for about 10 minutes. After that, we wall went to the grocery store.
Back home, Carly made soup, and I played with August. He played in the sink for a long time. I got out the dinosaur cup that Vivian had given him and he used it to drink water. He then played with it in the sink, filling it up, pouring it out, and pretending to drink from it.
About 6:30 Carly got him ready for bed. We then spent 15 minutes playing with the clips on his high chair. His new game is pretending that his finger gets caught in it when it clicks. He goes ‘ahh’ and pulls back and looks at his finger. He will often then hold it out to me to kiss, or walk over to Carly to have her kiss it.
Despite waking up at 5 and only taking a 35 minute nap, he made it 7 before falling asleep. Hopefully back onto a regular sleeping schedule from here on.
New word: elevator
Reading with mama in the new reading area:
Making and eating banana bread:
Saying bye bye to the watch after a call from Carly:
Walk to Madeul Stadium:
Grocery store:
Playing in the sink: